Thanksgiving!

During our Thanksgiving "weeks" (which was 7 days), the kids did a lot of different Thanksgiving themed activities in their stations throughout the day.

We played this super fun sight word game called Catch That Turkey!  The kids drew cards in a pile, read the sight word, then got to spin the spinner if they read the word correctly. The player who got to the end of their page first was the winner. We used counters the first time so we could play over and over, but later in the week they colored their circles in.

The day after our Thanksgiving lunch, the kids worked on building words, blending words, playing their turkey sight word game in small groups and writing about different Fall pictures they chose.

For each word they built correctly after I called it out, they got to keep the word card!

The next week was a super short week with only 2 days of school! We did a lot of math, science and social studies those days since it was a full week. In math, the kids did a Nearpod assessment with counting, writing and representing numbers; used linking cubes to build Thanksgiving foods; and showed greater than and less than with Thanksgiving pictures. I'm not sure what was going on with my phone, but the pictures were really blurry that day!

We Pop See Ko'd before we left ... and all had a great Thanksgiving Break!

Beach Week and Water Day!

With the craziness that is May, I'm a little late getting this up! I'll add the links to our activities later.

Since it was a week filled with Beachy fun, I decided to put everything in one post.

In math during the week, the kids used seashells to help find the missing numbers in addition and subtraction sentences, fished for numbers to add together, did hidden pictures, and solved addition problems using shark teeth the help them out!

  

In their reading and writing stations throughout the week, the kids wrote a SCUBA diving story, made SCUBA divers, put ocean animals in alphabetical order, made footprint lobsters, dug for sight words in our sand pool, made words with the letters in ocean animals, decoded beach sentences, put words in order to figure out what the sentence was and sorted ocean animals by syllables. Each day, we made a different beach themed snack.

Monday's beach snack was banana and apple palm trees.

Tuesday's beach snack was ocean jello with Swedish fish.

Wednesday's snack was sand dollar cookies.

Thursday's snack was hot dog octopuses with blue mac and cheese.

Friday was Water Day! And we were SOOOOO glad that it didn't rain! We waited until after music, once it had warmed up a bit, slathered on sunscreen and then headed outside for a long day in the water and sun!

Happy Beach Week/Water Day!